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• Children's literature, American -- History and criticism -- Bibliography

• Girls Series Books: A Checklist of Titles Published 1840-1991 (c1992), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• History of the development of the American story-book (C.E. Goodspeed, 1911), by Rosalie V. Halsey, Daniel Berkeley Updike, and Merrymount Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's reading in America, 1776 : a selection of titles (Library of Congress, 1976), by Virginia Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American children's books, 1682-1847 (The Free library of Philadelphia, 1928), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forgotten Books of the American Nursery: A History of the Development of the American Story-Book, by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey (Gutenberg ebook)

• Early American children's books (The Southworth Press, 1933), by A. S. W. Rosenbach and A. Edward Newton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Pearl Story Book: A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected (1850), by Mrs. Colman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our little ones and the nursery (Russell Pub. Co., 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our little ones and the nursery. (Estes and Lauriat, 1880), by Estes & Lauriat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christmas vs. Fourth of July (Printed by Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1908), by Asenath Carver Coolidge and Hungerford-Holbrook Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• All about Johnnie Jones (Milton Bradley Co., 1907), by Carolyn Verhoeff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers that never fade; culled for their young friends (G.W. Briggs, 1853), by Annie and Amelia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old farm gate: containing stories and poems for children and youth (Daniels and Smith, 1852), by Richard Coe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toots, and other stories, old fashioned stories and jingles for new fashioned little folk (The Author, 1906), by Anna A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vase of flowers; a gift for the young. (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1847), by Amanda M. Corey Edmond and Massachusetts Sabbath School Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick Duncan; the story of a boy who loved mischief, and how he was cured of his evil habit. (Howe & Ferry, 1865), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Parley miscellany of pleasant and useful reading. (C.S. Francis ;, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Althea, or, The children of Rosemont plantation (Benziger Brothers, 1908), by D. Ella Nirdlinger, Egbert Cadmus, and Benziger Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arm chair stories. (Cassell & Co., 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views from nature. (American Tract Society, 1863), by American Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ellen Linn : a Franconia story (Harper & Brothers, 1852), by Jacob Abbott, Harper & Brothers, and Lossing & Barritt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bright side stories : gems of beauty in prose, poetry and picture (J.S. Goodman & Co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alice and the stork; a fairy tale for workingmen's children... (R. G. Badger; [etc., etc., 1915), by Henry Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pepper and salt (Harper and Brothers, printers and publishers, 1885), by Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunday. (E.P. Dutton, 1885), by George Lucas Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young folks' cyclopædia of common things : (Henry Holt, 1890), by John Denison Champlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winifred West (W.A. Wilde company, 1901), by Blanche Mary Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rover's fun and other stories. (D. Lothrop and Co., 1880), by Kate Greenaway and D. Lothrop & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little colored boy and other stories. (New York : Methodist Book Concern, [between 1900 and 1916], 1900), by Methodist Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodworth's cabinet library : comprising choice selections from the Youth's cabinet (D.A. Woodworth, 1850), by Francis C. Woodworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories for children (Roberts Brothers, 1875), by Adams Sherman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Youth's cabinet (D. Austin Woodworth, 1855), by Francis C. Woodworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Little Colored Boy, and Other Stories, contrib. by Methodist Book Concern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Merry doings of childhood (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1885), illust. by Alfred Thomas Elwes, James W Louderbach, H. Winthrop Peirce, Solomon Eytinge, Robert Barnes, Kate Greenaway, Charles Roberts, A. B. Frost, Isaac G Pesoa, Harrison Weir, Dalziel Brothers, R. & E. Taylor (Firm), and Butterworth and Heath (page images at Florida)
• Little Peterkin Vandike (Boston: Alpha Publishing Company, 1896), by Charles Stuart Pratt, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at Florida)
• The orchard swing (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, c1899) (page images at Florida)
• Children at home (New York: R. Worthington, 1882) (page images at Florida)
• The young folks' cyclopædia of common things (New York: Henry Holt and Company, n.d.), by John Denison Champlin (page images at Florida)
• Christmas greeting (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898) (page images at Florida)

• Black Caesar's clan; a Florida mystery story (A. L. Burt, 1922), by Albert Payson Terhune (page images at HathiTrust)
• When a feller needs a friend. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1917), by William Johnston and Arthur William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Research about nineteenth-century children and books : portrait studies (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1980), by Selma K. Richardson, Association for Library Service to Children. Committee on National Planning for Special Collections, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 2000), by Edward Connery Lathem (illustrated HTML and PDF at Dartmouth)

• Cousin grace (Lee and Shepard, 1864), by Rebecca Sophia Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land of Dimm (R.C. Penfield, 1917), by Isabel Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collection Guides (finding aids listings that encompass and supersede Hoyle's 1985 published "checklist"), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections, contrib. by Karen Nelson Hoyle (HTML at Minnesota; scroll down page to see alphabetical list of finding aids)

• Wooden Willie (Bobbs-Merrill, 1954), by Johnny Gruelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Nursery, ed. by Fanny P. Seaverns (partial serial archives)
• Frank Leslie's Christmas book. (Mrs. Frank Leslie, in the 1880s), by Mrs. Frank Leslie and Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.